Gogol Is Dead is wonderful, just the right amount of everything in it, I love the sounds and structure of this track. Gogol is now one of those dead souls perhaps. Past Of India, is a bit more chaotic to start, like driving a car through Calcutta. There is a deeper resonance, which is maybe referable to India's history, living through the Empire, gaining independance, making nuclear bombs. The third track, is quite up beat and throws a selection of voices in with the synthetic noises that abound around.
New Witchcraft puts the mid range beat and percussion in place, and starts to build with sometimes soft lilting piano, to the odd harsher sound. Thanks to the likes of Harry Potter everyone wants to do magic, that's your new witchcraft! A delusion, but wasn't it so originally? Horror Writer is aptly deep and dark, with a stuttering of writers cramp, like a dam holding back the horror held within. Sometimes, without expression, that can be an unhealthy situation. Release, release! Half way through the construction begins and the writer is relieved of his literary burden.
Just Kidding clear synth melody, beat comes in, then rhythm and melody variation. Fairly standard build up, but then they are just kidding. Nice little track, quite jolly in places, though a bit more grave towards the end. Tekno City booms into view. This is led by a heavy synth, repetitive with some tekno additions on the way. Old Oak Chants sounds like a meeting of pagans worshipping their gods of nature, with a musical accompaniment.
New Witchcraft (ver 2) presents us with techgnosis. The new witch lives on My Space, or some other similar collective, instead of lighting beacons on hills, they post blogs and assert the validity of their belief systems technologically. Makes it seem a bit diluted as a result.
Overall, I really liked this album, it has a good sense of cohesiveness and nice sounds placed in harmony with each other. Blessed Be!-)
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